The extraordinary life of the Indian Princess who fought for equality. The goddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh marched alongside Emmeline Pankhurst, demanding the vote for women...

In 1909, four suffragettes chained themselves to statues in the Palace of Westminster to protest against a law banning disorderly conduct inside the Palace while Parliament was in session...

In the Iris Woodmore Mysteries, Iris is a young journalist who turns sleuth. The novels are set in the 1920s, and there were no female detectives in the British police force at this time. But all that was about to change…

Considered a royal rebel, Queen Victoria's fourth daughter Princess Louise was an advocate of women’s rights and supported the suffrage movement...

In my novel, Death at Crookham Hall, the fictional Mrs Sybil Siddons becomes the third woman to take a seat in the House of Commons when she wins a by-election in 1920. But who were the first women to enter Parliament...

Despite significant reforms in 1918 and 1919, the fight for equal representation was far from over, and this was certainly true when it came to women serving as jurors...

On 2nd April 1911, the night of the census, Emily Wilding Davison spent the night hiding in the House of Commons inside a broom cupboard...

Inspiration for Death at Crookham Hall struck in 2018 in the Houses of Parliament at the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918. Despite the Act, a third of women still couldn't vote, and the fight for equality was far from over...

Research is one of my favourite aspects of being a historical crime fiction writer. However, it's easy to become sidetracked...